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authorbescoto <bescoto@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2003-07-22 10:44:50 +0000
committerbescoto <bescoto@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2003-07-22 10:44:50 +0000
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Final changes for 0.13.0 (small test changes, Fedora spec packaging)
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@@ -11,15 +11,29 @@ fsyncing. Options such as --windows-mode, --chars-to-quote,
Now rdiff-backup supports user extended attributes (EAs). To take
advantage of this you will need the python module pyxattr and a file
system that supports EAs. Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable
-discussion on EA and ACL support.
+discussion.
Support for access control lists (ACLs) was also added. An ACL
capable file system and the python package pylibacl (which exports the
-posix1e module) are required.
+posix1e module) are required. Thanks to Greg Freemyer for valuable
+discussion.
Thanks to patches by Daniel Hazelbaker, rdiff-backup now reads and
writes Mac OS X style resource forks!
+****** Warning ****** The above features are new to this development
+release, and it is difficult to test all the possibly combinations of
+source and destination file systems. They should not be considered
+stable. However, help would be appreciated testing these new
+features.
+
+****** Warning #2 ****** rdiff-backup records ACL and EA information
+in files designed to be compatible with the utilities "getfacl" and
+"getfattr". However, there is a possible security hole in both these
+formats (see
+http://acl.bestbits.at/pipermail/acl-devel/2003-June/001498.html).
+rdiff-backup's format will be fixed when getf{attr|acl}'s is.
+
Added --list-increment-sizes switch, which tells you how much space
the various backup files take up. (Suggested by Andrew Bressen)
@@ -31,6 +45,11 @@ Troels Arvin.)
Fixed bug with --check-destination and --windows-mode reported by
Tucker Sylvestro.
+The librsync blocksize is now chosen based on filesize. This should
+make operations on large files faster (in some cases, orders of
+magnitude faster). Thanks to Ty! Boyack for bringing this issue to my
+attention.
+
New in v0.12.0 (2003/06/26)
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